Overview
- The Constitutional Court rejected unconstitutionality challenges from the Lima Bar Association and the Public Prosecutor’s Office, leaving Law 32107 in force.
- A four-to-three split fell short of the five votes required to strike down a statute, so the law remains valid under the Court’s interpretation.
- Law 32107 confines charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes to acts from July 1, 2002, with pre-2002 events governed by the 1991 Penal Code and its prescription rules.
- Three magistrates issued singular votes invoking international-law imprescriptibility, underscoring a clash between domestic application and ius cogens principles.
- The Lima Bar Association publicly rejected the decision as risking impunity, and a 2024 Foreign Ministry report to the Inter-American system warned that enabling prescription for such crimes conflicts with Peru’s treaty commitments.